BILL NUMBER: SJR 13	CHAPTERED  07/23/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   75
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 23, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 15, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   JUNE 1, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Baca

                        MAY 11, 1999

   Senate Joint Resolution No. 13--Relative to former military base
property.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 13, Baca.  Former military base properties.
   This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress of
the United States to enact legislation to transfer former military
base property to local communities at no cost if the local
communities use the property for job-generating economic development,
and to forgive lease payments for communities that have already
entered into agreements with the Department of Defense.




   WHEREAS, The President of the United States and the Secretary of
Defense have announced that they will ask Congress for the authority
to transfer former military base property to local communities at no
cost if the local communities use the property for job-generating
economic development; and
   WHEREAS, These no-cost economic development conveyances would
minimize time-consuming property appraisals and negotiations, thereby
speeding property transfers and reuse of these properties, and
reducing the Department of Defense's costs to maintain and operate
excess property; and
   WHEREAS, The Department of Defense is organizing a base-reuse "Red
Team" to develop plans to implement the new economic development
conveyances, with an emphasis on a rapid and smooth transition of
property to productive reuse; and
   WHEREAS, Proposed federal legislation would forgive lease payments
for communities that have already entered into agreements with the
Department of Defense, including communities in California; and
   WHEREAS, This proposed legislation would benefit the State of
California, which suffered disproportionately, compared to other
states, by base closures in 1988, 1991, 1993, and 1995; and
   WHEREAS, California shouldered 60 percent of the net cuts in
military personnel as a result of those base closures, despite the
fact that the state had just 15 percent of military personnel before
the cuts began; and
   WHEREAS, California suffered the closure or realignment of 29
bases, losing more than 186,000 jobs and almost $9.6 billion in
economic activity; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of California,
jointly, That the California Legislature respectfully memorializes
Congress and the President of the United States to enact legislation
to transfer former military base property to local communities at no
cost if the local communities use the property for job-generating
economic development, and to forgive lease payments for communities
that have already entered into agreements with the Department of
Defense; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States,
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and each Senator and
Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.
